Lifting half a ton…for how long?
China claims breakthrough with world’s first ducted eVTOL that can lift nearly half a ton
Submitted 2 days ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/worlds-first-ducted-ton-class-flying-saucer-evtol
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kossa@feddit.org 2 days ago
0x0@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
2 meters
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yes
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nuclear bomb capable of lifting tons find use in new search and missions. /s
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Dang! That’s nearly half of your mom!
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Does the definition of VTOL not include the ability to transition to forward thrust? Looks cool but I’d just call it a multicopter
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
It stands for Vertical Take Off and Landing
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The implied part of VTOL is that it’s only vertical for takeoff and landing, and otherwise primarily a horizontally propelled craft.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Yes I do know that, but I am not aware of any aircraft that is “a VTOL” but only does vertical take off and landing
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Ducted?
Spes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How loud is this?
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Mf has at least eight rotors and can lift half a ton, so just assume it’s loud as fuck.
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
A silent aircraft with rotors enclosed inside its fuselage lifted off in front of an auditorium in downtown Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, during a public display on February 24.
This leaves me with even more questions.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yes
credo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just the video: www.youtube.com/shorts/F_B-bhayfZg
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
No true audio on just music in the video
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Every angle appears to be a different design…
chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow that is terribly ad ridden.
Innerworld@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Get an ad-blocker
M137@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It never stops being so fucking weird that people choose to not use ad-blockers, and then complain about ads. Do you also not wear seat belts and then complain about neck pain after fender benders, or eat raw meat and then complain about getting sick? It’s just as dumb.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 days ago
It’s weird to me that people complain about how long it takes to get to work, why don’t they just aggressively speed to get there earlier?
Sites need money to run and many rely on ads. Blocking them is an asshole move (that I admittedly do) but so is dumping them all over a page. It would be nice to have some sort of pay for what you use alternative but until then, bitching isn’t half as weird and obnoxious as whatever you’re doing in this comment
atropa@piefed.social 2 days ago
No ads here ,which browser do you use ?
chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apparently I touched a nerve with some. But I was just using the built in browser for voyager on iOS. But I also have nextdns and Mullvad in-use which normally provides fairly good coverage for me but evidently not on this site.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Ok, but can’t they make it look less like a 1950s movie version of a UFO?
ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can they make it look MORE like a 1950s movie version of a UFO?
ftfy
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
yea agree it looks gorgeous
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I mean, we all have our artistic preferences, fair enough
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 day ago
reminds me a bit of the moller.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea theses were invented years ago, we called them helicopters.
Agent641@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
“Silent”
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